Abstract
No assignee for this patent application has been made.Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Ina chain of conventional self-service stores, the most cost -efficient method of replenishing store inventories,by far, is by the “case”, t hat is, to supply stores with the shipping cases of products received from supplying manufacturers. The alternative is to replenish by the “each” or “eaches”, i .e. to supply storeswith individual product units in less-than-case quantities, but that method is so much more costly thatuniversally the primary unit of rep lenishment in large-format stores like supermarkets and hypermarkets isby the c ases shipped in pallet shipments.
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